Hey, remember just a few short months ago how news media outlets were loudly banging the outrage drum in support of poor 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, aka “Clock Kid”? If not, allow me to briefly refresh your memory: Mohamed, then a student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, […]

On November 19th, the Royal Air Force scrambled a pair of Eurofighter Typhoons from their base at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland to intercept two Russian Air Force supersonic Tu-160 bombers flying close to UK airspace. Earlier that day, the Russian bombers had taken off from their base at […]

11 July 1995: 20 years ago this month, two decades before ISIS de-sensitized people to mass, up-close-and-personal execution of non-combatants because of religious affiliation, there was Strebrenica. Bosnian Serb forces led by Radovan Karadžić and his military commander, Ratko Mladić executed an estimated 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and […]

In recent months, Americans have become aware that Hillary Clinton, throughout her tenure as Secretary of State, conducted all her official email communications via a personal, dedicated email network, and that in late 2014 Russian hackers allegedly penetrated the White House email system, gaining access to the President’s […]

Angela Merkel at the Munich Security Conference, repeating her mantra that there is “no military solution” for the crisis in Ukraine: “I grew up in East Germany, I have seen the Wall,” she said. “The Americans did not intervene in the Wall, but in the end we won.” […]

Deterrence Versus Punishment: Sanctions are No Longer Enough In 2014, in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the onset of armed conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region, the West’s imposition of targeted economic sanctions seemed at the time to be a prudent and measured response to the […]

In the case of both Hitler’s Germany and Putin’s Russia, the Leader successfully tapped into popular resentment by pushing a false narrative based on patriotism, revisionist history and xenophobic nationalism. ADOLF HITLER Great Depression-era Germany was an environment rife with massive economic, social and political turmoil and uncertainty. […]